(Physicians will confer a favor by sending for this department items of news of more or less general interest: such as relate to society activities, new hospitals, education, public health, etc.)

ALABAMA

Dr. Welch Reappointed.—The board of censors of the State Medical Association of Alabama, at a meeting in Montgomery, January 10, unanimously reelected Dr. Samuel W. Welch state health officer for a period of five years. Dr. Welch has been the state health officer of Alabama since 1917. He is an ex-president of the state medical association, a member of the Council on Medical Education and Hospitals of the American Medical Association, and prominent in other state and national health councils.

CALIFORNIA

"Sub Office of the Great Physician."— James A. Biglow, 1435 South Central Avenue, Los Angeles, was arraigned, Nov. 30, 1926, on a charge of violating the medical practice act; he pleaded guilty, it is reported,